TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Computation of Gauss Hypergeometric Functions
AU - Nadarajah, Saraleesan
N1 - Ranked 2nd among all statistics and probability journals (in terms of impact factor)
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The pioneering study undertaken by Liang etal. in 2008 (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, 410-423) and the hundreds of papers citing that work make use of certain hypergeometric functions. Liang etal. and many others claim that the computation of the hypergeometric functions is difficult. Here, we show that the hypergeometric functions can in fact be reduced to simpler functions that can often be computed using a pocket calculator.
AB - The pioneering study undertaken by Liang etal. in 2008 (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, 410-423) and the hundreds of papers citing that work make use of certain hypergeometric functions. Liang etal. and many others claim that the computation of the hypergeometric functions is difficult. Here, we show that the hypergeometric functions can in fact be reduced to simpler functions that can often be computed using a pocket calculator.
U2 - 10.1080/00031305.2015.1028595
DO - 10.1080/00031305.2015.1028595
M3 - Article
SN - 1537-2731
VL - 69
SP - 146
EP - 148
JO - The American Statistician
JF - The American Statistician
IS - 2
ER -